>Corps
>Americans pronluce it core
Hmmm
so do the french
>>66654785
That's the french pronounciation.
>>66654785
>colonel
>pronounced kernel
>>66654892
This one always gets me. I'll be just watching some war film and this pops into my head.
>>66654847
>>66654842
whats with french and having everything silent
REEE
>>66654892
>>66654930
>lieutenant
>leftentant
>lieutenant is pronounced LOO-TENANT
> mirror
> pronounced "meer"
>Non-French arguing about how to pronounce French words
>>66655232
1066, worst year of my life
>>66655069
We don't use the french pronunciation for some things because we hate them.
>ameriblobs pronounce craig as "creg" and greg as "graig"
>>66655269
But Nigel, you're ruled by the French
>>66654785
So do we
>tube
>pronounced "chewb"
>Leicester
>pronounced "Lester"
>>66655339
How do you pronounce tube? Like toob?
>>66654785
That's how you pronounce it you twat
>>66655455
>not pronouncing tube as "toob"
Are you even Germanic?
>>66655232
you frogs ruined it. English is nothing but trash. Silent letters everywhere and the worst thing is the use of words not even pronounced the way they are written.
>>66655455
>not pronouncing tube as "toob"
Are you even Germanic?
did u know that between 12th and 15th century english intellectuals tried to distance english language from germanic languages on purpose and so changed every vowel to a "higher" (e->i, a->e, etc) one, and thus occurred the vowel heightenance of english?
really makes u hate english
>>66655641
thats lame. English should go back to its germanic roots.
>>66655757
If English completely got rid of froggery it would sound more like Danish.
>>66655872
Is that good or bad?
>>66655137
we do that
>>66655903
Can't tell, but it wouldn't resemble modern English at all.
>>66655378
The correct way
>>66655378
With a hard U>>66655455